{"id":677,"date":"2016-10-18T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/?p=677"},"modified":"2016-10-18T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T03:29:21","slug":"untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/2016\/10\/18\/untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Jk&#8217;s: Articles of Knowing)<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing what to write, the absence of vision,<br \/>\nCall it lazines, i need some erudite precision.<br \/>\nRealistically I couldn&#8217;t improvise indecision<br \/>\nAny better than if my moderator insisted on a latin prescription.<br \/>\nWill I, the greatest, maker of affinity,<br \/>\nfalter, fail, bomb apocalyptically,<br \/>\nsaunter so sadistically while pilgrims perish near to me&#8230;<br \/>\ni was never the humblest of prodigies, come<br \/>\ndeliver me from tyranny!<br \/>\n(I honestly could never sleep with prose unwritten on the sheet.)<br \/>\nSo I scrawled:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCause my slant rhyme is your good time<br \/>\nAnd my collocation is your breaths\u2019 vacation,<br \/>\nYah my short essay is your hit parade<br \/>\nAnd anyhow, my life is great,\u201d<br \/>\nPass pass pass pass<\/p>\n<p>Underhanded, reprimanded, over-eager-people-pleaser<br \/>\nLeave it to the master plans. Plans plans plans plans.<br \/>\nI wont put off what you pass down,<br \/>\nI wont hesitate and hit the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in outer space, every evening i\u2019m dreaming<br \/>\nAbout the girl, by herself, creativity streaming,<br \/>\nWith one pen and one paper, gives the whole world new meaning<\/p>\n<p>Cause she\u2019s a gold-mine, yeah better than fine,<br \/>\nWith gravitas, elegance, and a box of wine,<br \/>\nIntellectual, yass, and strong as hell,<br \/>\nRock steady wit, sick moves as well,<\/p>\n<p>I mean not really, she\u2019s a meat-loaf pan<br \/>\nWith dance moves as limber as lieutenant dan,<br \/>\nMethodically,<br \/>\nRepeatedly,<br \/>\nShuffling at the knees,<br \/>\nHowever unenthused the party seems to be,<\/p>\n<p>but i\u2019m in outer space, every evening dreaming,<br \/>\nThe girl by herself, creativity streaming, with one pen and one paper, gives the world true meaning<\/p>\n<p>{ &#8211; Trouble is nowhere\u2019s a good place to be found,<br \/>\nThe best voices, it seems, always come from the ground,<br \/>\nEveryone worth anything&#8217;s already gone down. &#8211; }<\/p>\n<p>Why am i clowning, a kite flying low,<br \/>\nWord count so wimpishly dragging in tow,<br \/>\nShe made the case for me, put pen to paper,<br \/>\nMake dolla bills y\u2019all, his name\u2019s don draper,<\/p>\n<p>But while he cashed checks i was starting to whimper<br \/>\nDeadline approaching, like some GRRMARTIN winter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So i\u2019m punch-happy, fresh-sliced caffeine<br \/>\nAnd a babka made of methamphetamine,<br \/>\nWriting miles a minute, my whole spirit in it,<br \/>\nRealistically, just wasting ink,<br \/>\nBut writing is writing<br \/>\nAnd whether they find it<br \/>\nEntertaining is besides the fucking point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCause my sarcasm\u2019s your phantasm,<br \/>\nMy irony\u2019s your cuppa tea,<br \/>\nMy prepositional phrases hit you in special places<br \/>\nAnd anyhow my life is great\u201d<br \/>\nPass pass pass pass<\/p>\n<p>But i\u2019m in outer space, every evening dreaming,<br \/>\nThe girl by herself, creativity streaming, with one pen and one paper, creates something worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jk&#8217;s: Articles of Knowing) Not knowing what to write, the absence of vision, Call it lazines, i need some erudite precision. 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